Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 28, 1987

I heard from the front. They said that there is no new [news], but the enemy is preparing for another attack. In the public session of the Majlis, before the order, I spoke about the virtues of the martyrs of the seventh of Tir. I came to my office out of breath. Dr. Rouhani came and asked permission to go to Mecca.

Dr. Velayati came. He is going to travel to Austria and Italy. He consulted for designable materials. I told him to tell about the danger of America's adventure in the Persian Gulf and that the Russians behind the scenes are pushing America to fall into the swamp of the Persian Gulf and they know that if there is a conflict between Iran and America, the relations between the two countries will not be normal soon. That's what the Russians want, although the Americans at first provoked the Russians, at the cost of damaging two Russian ships and damaging their reputation.

I prayed the afternoon and evening prayers with the families of martyrs on the 7th of Tir, who were guests of the assembly, and I spoke to them between the two prayers.

In the evening [Mr. Carlos Nunes] the Speaker of the Nicaraguan Parliament and the accompanying delegation came to the Parliament. Most of their words were about the need for oil, and they claimed that they have secured about half of the annual need to import five hundred thousand tons of oil, and the other half is on the ground, and if they do not get access, their country's activities, including transportation, army, medicine, and some industries, may be paralyzed and some countries have promised to help but do not help.

The members of the headquarters of the war week came and I told my opinion about their program. The Chinese ambassador came and brought a message from the Chinese leaders that we should not preempt the use of silkworm missiles and that they may delay the delivery of surface-to-air missiles. Although some of it is also delivered in two series. I told them to discuss and coordinate with the IRGC minister and I also said that we have these types of missiles from non-Chinese sources and you should not worry that they can prove that yours was used. He claims that they are under pressure from big governments and Arabs.

Mr. [Ali] Agha Mohammadi came. He came from inside Iraq and went deep into Iraq and the Barzanis area on the Turkish border and talked with the Barzanis leaders. His opinion was that they don't want to get involved with the Iraqi government too much, and they don't have the desire to take important economic resources, and they fear that Iraq will take drastic action against them, and in general, they don't have much at our disposal, and especially their left wing has un-Islamic positions. Although the people of the region are strongly religious.

At night, the chiefs of forces were in my office. It was discussed about the request of the Nicaraguan guest and also about the possibility of getting involved with America in the Persian Gulf. In the evening, Hamza's battalion came from the Badr army - which are the prisoners of Taib of Iraq - and a group from the Tharullah army. I spoke for them.

The chemical bombing of Sardasht, which left many civilians dead and injured, is one of the examples of Saddam's inhuman clear-eyedness and the unscrupulousness of the claimants of global human rights.